what to do with all those vintage buttons?

Over the years I have amassed quite a collection of vintage buttons.  This morning I set out to sort my buttons, after all what else is there to do on a wet and windy Sunday afternoon?  The following pictures show the results of a day of hard labour with the button tins.

first I organised them by colour

then I took some pictures

then I sewed some onto a piece of fleece and put it in a frame

and Alasdair took some arty pictures.

I have literally thousands of vintage buttons.  They’ll either be made into arrangements like this or sold as sets once they’re sorted and cleaned.

6 Comments

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  By Mellie, 26 January, 2009 @ 6:21 pm

  Thats so pretty – and what patience you must have!

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  By Jolene, 26 January, 2009 @ 8:14 pm

  Thanks Mellie

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  By Lois Richter, 30 January, 2009 @ 2:14 am

  Very nice; very pretty jars.
  Since I often want to keep buttons together as a set, I unbend a paperclip most of the way (until it looks like an “L”), slip all the matching button on it, and then bend the top to hold in place. If the buttons are small, I use safety pins.
  Makes them easier to gather up.

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  By Jolene, 30 January, 2009 @ 9:04 am

  Thanks for the tip Lois

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  By Deedra, 27 February, 2009 @ 2:25 pm

  I have SOOOOOOOOOoo many buttons, too. What a nice idea to put them in the glass jars for all to see. I already have them sorted (lol) so that would be really easy. I need some nice shelves for my studio and then I’ll put them up!!

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  By Jolene, 1 March, 2009 @ 7:44 pm

  Thanks. Mine aren’t on the shelf yet, but they will be when I have a shelf to put them on…or maybe a room to put a shelf in to put them on :)

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